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Belgium Glenn Vaughan of the British Chamber of Commerce | EU & Belgium discusses the importance of the Belgium-UK relationship, the role of healthcare and the life sciences within that, and how the Chamber’s work is evolving in the run-up to Brexit.   In the field of healthcare and life sciences,…

UAE One year after King’s College Hospital’s establishment in the UAE, CEO Christian Schuhmacher discusses the hospital’s unique approach of combining the best of British healthcare with UAE’s superior services. He discusses why Dubai is an attractive destination for medical tourism, the benefits of patient pathway guidelines and where he hopes…

Belgium Romuald Gaudefroy, managing director of CAF-DCF, the Belgian subsidiary of the LFB Group, introduces the company which was integrated into LFB in 2016. Gaudefroy goes on to offer insights on how a national tender in 2018 has impacted the company’s historic positioning as a manufacturer and also delivers a message…

UAE Ousama Al Haj, director for UAE, Bahrain, Oman & Qatar at AstraZeneca, highlights the company’s substantial growth and favourable position in the Gulf markets, explains how the company is overcoming the local healthcare dynamics by partnering with local authorities to offer patients’ platforms instead of products, and analyzes AstraZeneca’s future…

Romania According to a 2015 United Nations International Migration Report, since Romania joined the European Union in 2007, around 3.4 million Romanians have left the country in search of a better quality of life and economic opportunity.   In 2019, the number of babies born in Romania was approximately 182,000, making…

Romania While the dismal regulatory environment in Romania has negatively affected the innovators with the uncertain and lengthy regulatory approval timelines as well as the dreaded ‘clawback tax’ doubling over the past decade, the generics sector has argued that they are the ones that have borne the brunt of unfavourable industry…

South Korea South Korea is the 12th largest healthcare market globally with a market size of around USD 20 billion in 2019. With the government’s plans to invest over USD 1.7 billion in its biopharma and biotech sectors over the next five years, the country’s prominence in the global biopharma landscape will…

China PharmaBoardroom caught up with Dr Jingsong Wang, chairman & CEO of Harbour BioMed to discuss the exciting clinical and commercial milestones of the prolific biotech in the last year since we last met them in January 2019, including their March USD 75 million Series B+ fundraising round and their preparations…

Opinion Song Ruilin, chairman of the China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association (PhIRDA) highlights the leaps and bounds with which the Chinese pharmaceutical industry has developed in recent years, the country’s increasingly important role in the global innovation landscape, and why cross-border collaboration is more crucial than ever in the…

Mexico Here we highlight the top 10 pharma companies in Mexico based on IQVIA data from February MAT 2020. Four of the top ten companies are Mexican: PISA, Sanfer, Senosiain and Siegfried Rhein.   Made with Visme Infographic Maker

Opinion John G. Singer examines how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic may create a new dichotomy for global healthcare – and why pharma companies still wedded to the market models of the past risk getting left behind.   “Drug” companies have a unique opportunity to invent a different market for themselves. It…

UAE PharmaBoardroom’s latest country report gives an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of one of the most strategic and innovation-friendly nations on earth: The UAE.   The UAE’s pharma market was predicted to grow to USD four billion in 2020, representing a CAGR of 8.5 percent from 2019. The country sits at…